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“Shadow Library” Or Piracy Site? Four Publishers Sue LibGen
"Cengage, Macmillan Learning, McGraw Hill and Pearson Education filed the suit against Library Genesis, also known as LibGen, in Manhattan federal court, citing 'extensive...
After A Monthlong Standoff, The Writers Guild And Studios Will Start Talking Again
"'The WGA and AMPTP now have a confirmed schedule to bargain this week, starting on Wednesday,' the union said in the message. 'You might...
The Consequences Of The Russell Brand Sexual Assault Allegations Have Started To Hit
Not only have promoters postponed the remainder of his current standup tour, his agent and publisher have dropped him. Perhaps even more damaging, YouTube...
Another US Regional Theater Company Drops The Traditional Directorship Model
"Crowded Fire is taking what might be its boldest step yet by dissolving its traditional hierarchical management in favor of a seven-person shared model...
“Disaster Was My God” — The Short, Wild, Obnoxious Life Of Arthur Rimbaud
"One hundred and fifty years ago this week, holed up at his family's farm in the Ardennes, 19-year-old Arthur Rimbaud … had reached the...
Julie Kent, Houston Ballet Co-Director, On Beauty In Dance
"(It's) the artist's willingness to be completely vulnerable on a stage. … Tutus and tiaras — that's a very, very dated and small idea...
The “Severe” Financial Crisis At Sacramento’s Public Radio Stations Isn’t Just About Listenership And...
"CapRadio's problems are much deeper than a shifting media landscape, former employees and current management say: three costly construction projects combined with falling revenue...
Kazuo Ishiguro’s Next Book Will Be A Bunch of Song Lyrics
"The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain: Lyrics for Stacey Kent will be published on 7 March 2024 by Faber, featuring 16 sets...
David Adjaye’s London Office Will Reportedly Lay Off Half Its Staff; Former Employees Describe...
"Allegations of sexual misconduct against David Adjaye ... sent shockwaves through the profession and led clients to cancel a string of projects. Now, his...
Ireland Slaps TikTok With $367 Million Fine
"TikTok has been fined €345 million — about $367 million — by (Ireland's Data Protection Commission), which ruled the app violated the EU's data-privacy...
Three Works By Egon Schiele Seized By Manhattan D.A. From Out-Of-State Museums
"The artworks were all previously owned by Fritz Grünbaum, a cabaret performer and songwriter who died at the Dachau concentration camp in 1941. (They...
“A Breathtaking $500 Million Gamble”: The New Perelman Performing Arts Center At Ground Zero
"A lot of what drove the programming decisions was where there was that emotional hook," said artistic director Bill Rauch. "What does it mean...
In “Precipitous” Move, Spoleto Festival USA Replaces Music Director
Mena Mark Hanna, who became the festival's general director in 2021, has replaced longtime chief conductor John Kennedy with a new music director, Timothy...
Why Were Two Medieval Stained-Glass Panels From Notre-Dame Auctioned Off At Sotheby’s?
That's what French authorities are investigating. The two medallions were taken from the Paris cathedral during its last renovation, in 1862, and were sold...
Revisiting The Birth Of Drag As America Knows It Today
Queer historian Hugh Ryan describes the scene in Manhattan's then-cheap East Village, which started in the early 1980s as scrappy do-it-yourself performance art, was...
The Scrappy Independent Publisher That Established English As A Language Of Indian Literature
In 1958, P. Lal, Anita Desai, and other Kolkata writers who gathered in a Sunday-morning adda (a long, often serious discussion, very typically Bengali)...
Inigo Philbrick’s Former Partner-In-Crime Reveals The Tricks They Used To Defraud Art Collectors
"Art dealer Robert Newland, who pleaded guilty last year to his role in a massive fraud scheme with imprisoned dealer Inigo Philbrick, has just...
Belarus Free Theater Sets Up Shop In Warsaw To Help Out New Exiles
The company's co-founders fled the Lukashenko regime in 2011, settling in London and leading clandestine rehearsals in Minsk via Skype. Now that the rest...
Argentine Police Make “Historic Seizure” Of Nazi Propaganda And Shutter Local Publisher
"Argentina's Federal Police shut down a publisher that sold books that praised Nazi ideology, seized hundreds of texts and arrested one person … during...
Royal New Zealand Ballet’s Next Artistic Director Is, For A Change, From New Zealand
After 11 years under three successive leaders from overseas — Ethan Stiefel, Francesco Ventriglia, and Patricia Barker — and a certain amount of discord...
Northern England’s Top Concert Hall Gets A New Name: The Glasshouse
"For 19 years it has been called Sage (Gateshead) after a deal with its donor the Newcastle-based software company Sage. But the tech firm...
Fox Corp. Sued By New York City And Oregon For Lies About 2020 Election
"New York City's pension funds and the state of Oregon took legal action on Tuesday against Fox Corporation, alleging in a lawsuit that the...
2023 Praemium Imperiale Goes To Marsalis, Eliasson, Celmins, Wilson, Kéré
The five recipients of the Japan Art Association's 15 million yen ($102,000) prize, conceived as a Nobel for the arts, are composer/trumpeter Wynton Marsalis,...
The Gilmore Artist Award, A Sort Of MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship For Pianists, Goes To...
The $300,000 quadrennial grant, like the MacArthur, can't be applied for, and candidates don't know they're being considered. Kantorow, now 26, is in illustrious...
Lyric Opera Of Chicago CEO Anthony Freud Announces Early Retirement
The company's fourth general director, and the first to come from elsewhere (he had previously run Houston Grand Opera and Welsh National Opera), Freud...
